Hi :) I've used Links most recently but vaguely remember installing Lynx. I played chess by telnet once which felt quite cool. None of those look as advanced as Elink sounds. I think Elink grew from links? Not tried w3m yet. I'm on Gnu&Linux so things might be quite different
It's not always about advantages. Sometimes it's good to try things out for fun and just to satisfy curiosity. I do a bit of web-design so it's good to see how the site looks in other web-browsers and sometimes that leads to "mission creep" Elinks wanted to install tons of dependancies on my Unity DE, so did links2 and w3m. I sometimes ssh into my works machine from home or vice-versa or into the web-hosting company from either or from elsewhere in a LiveUsb session so working from the command-line is handy as it drastically minimises the overheads that a gui would squander. I seldom use a web-browser that way but it can be neater that way sometimes. Regards from Tom :) On 22 February 2014 13:40, M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-02-22 14:13 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi :) >> >> Errr, this is going a bit off-topic but i actually deliberately use >> Midori 0.4.3 on this machine precisely because of the way this version >> blocks me from unexpected downloads and YouTube)ish) videos from >> suddenly blaring out while i'm emailing and watching movies but the >> YouTube issue seemed to get fixed :( I'm tempted to go all the way >> back to a command-line ascii web-browser! >> >> The point was that it might be some setting in ZenWiz's web-browser or >> maybe something in it that doesn't work as it should. Easiest way for >> me, if that happened on any of my machines, would be to just try a >> different web-browser >> Regards from >> Tom :) > > > Well, Tom, seeing as we seem to have well and truly hijacked > > ZenWiz's thread - profuse apologies ! - let me ask if in the above you are > talking about such command-line browsers as w3m or Elink ? What advantages > would you find in using a CLI rather than a GUI ?... > > As to ZenWiz's difficulties with the LO x86-64 deb packages, I get the > impression that they, rather than being browser-related, have something to > do with the filters used at his workplace - on the other hand, he did write > that the couldn't connect from home either. Hope he'll forgive us for > hijacking the thread and post back to say whether a change of browser > resolves the problem !... > > Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
